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kontextmaschine:

Stingers weren’t the superweapon in the Soviet-Afghan War that the US suppliers puffed them up to be, and mostly influenced things via Soviet planners and pilots having to factor in the possibility that any given infantry might have an AA capacity, while most mujahideen-downed Hinds were downed with AA gun emplacements

curious how many helicopters were shot down over Iraq, the numbers seem to be all over the place

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Probably not by Stingers, they use a disposable battery/coolant (for contrast on the heat-sensitive seeker) pack that degenerates so the Afghan-era ones would’ve been unusable by then without resupply. Especially after the Iranian Revolution, American weapons systems are generally designed to be unusable outside of the American logistics chain.

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